<TITLE>22. Par 193-203</TITLE>L-193 Have you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ and accepted Him as your personal Saviour? And the Spirit of God bears record with your spirit, that you're sons and daughters of God. And your life bears fruit of love, joy, peace, long-suffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness. Then you're a Christian. If it doesn't, I don't care what you do.
Paul said, "I could give my body to be burned as a sacrifice. I knowed all the mysteries of God. I can move mountains with my faith. I can speak in tongues like men and Angels. I'm nothing." How about that? First Corinthians 13; find out if That's right or not.

L-194   Now find out if--if Corinthians, Second Corinthians 13, I believe it is. Or, well, it's either First or Second Corinthians. First Corinthians there, First Corinthians 13, is right. "Though I speak with tongues of men and Angels, both the kind that can be interpreted and that cannot be interpreted, I am nothing." So what's the use of fooling with it, then?

L-195 "Though I understand all the mysteries of God." Why do you go to seminaries and try to learn so much about? You better get right with God, first. Certainly. "Though I, 'Oh, blessed hallelujah!'"

L-196 You got so you can't even have a congregation unless you have a healing campaign or some kind of miracles going on. "A weak and adulterous generation seeketh after such." What do you want with that?

L-197 Paul said he could do all kinds of things, even move mountains, and still he's nothing. "Where there's tongues, it shall cease. Where there's knowledge, it shall vanish. Where there's prophecies, it shall fail. But when that which is perfect is come, it shall endure forever," and love is perfection. "God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son." That, "Whosoever shivers, whosoever shakes, whosoever speaks, whoso"? "Whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have Eternal Life." Believe that, children.

L-198   They try to make it so complicated, these things and them things. When, it boils right down to one thing: your personal faith in God. That's it. That tells it. "For by faith," not by feeling. "By faith," not by emotion. "By faith," not by sensation. "But by faith are you saved; and that by..." Because you sought the Lord? Because you was a good person? Because, "God, by grace, foreknew you and ordained you to Eternal Life."

L-199 Jesus said, "No man can come to Me except My Father draws him. And all that comes to me, I'll give him Eternal Life. No man can pluck them from My hand. They're Mine. They're forever saved. I got them. No man can pluck them out of My Father's hand, and He is the One that give them to Me. They're love gifts of Mine."

L-200 "And all He foreknew, He called." He don't call anybody 'less He foreknew him. "All He called, He justified; all He justified, He glorified." So, you see, we just at perfect rest.

L-201   Now, I know there's a lot of legalists here, ninety-nine percent of you. But, look, if you'll just take This and realize that I'm not trying to say to you something.

L-202 Then you say, "Well, Brother Branham, I've always thought I had to do this and I had to do that." There's such a--such a difference in it, brother, what you have to do and what you want to do. You are saved, not because you had one thing to do with it. You're saved because that God saved you before the foundation of the world.

L-203   Listen. Listen here. The Bible said, in the Revelation. I'm going to take you from at first to the last now. The Bible said, in Revelation, that, when the beast came, he deceived all upon the earth. The beast did. "He deceived all upon the earth, whose names were not written in the Lamb's Book of Life..." Since the revival began? Does that sound right? Well, since the preacher preached that mighty sermon? Since that man was healed? "... since the foundation of the world."


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